Sarcasmo220

joined 3 years ago
[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's sort of a paradox. Low adoption leads to less resources, bug reports, developer interest, etc. and that in turn leads to low adoption.

What works for me is daily driving my linux phone, and having a used regular smartphone sitting in a drawer, turned off, until I absolutely need to run an app that is not compatible with Waydroid.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

You could probably stretch it to 10-12 hours if you turn all the hardware kill switches to off, which activates "lockdown mode." It turns off every sensor on the device.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I daily drive a Librem 5. First thing to note is do not expect a well polished experience. Battery life is bad, only about 4 hours of light use, and 8 or so hours if left in suspend. It can do VoLTE, send SMS, use web apps and any apps coded with libadwaita or kirigami. Other desktop apps can be forced to scale on the display, but it won't be perfect.

I use Signal desktop as my main means of communication on the Librem 5. I have a spare normie phone for setup, but Waydroid is an option. I do use Waydroid for a few apps that have no web browser equivalent.

Idk, all I can say is, you have to really want it to live with it. I don't do gaming or heavy social media use or anything removed that, so it is just fine for me. But it's definitely not for everyone.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

More like they became an anxious doctor who spiral into self hate whenever they make basic mistakes.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My MAGA cousin sent me a YT short of a clip from the movie Gangs of New York. In the clip a character was ranting about how useless immigrants were, along with some dehumanizing comments, and the USA should get rid of them, with my cousin saying he agreed wholeheartedly.

I pointed out that the character was the villain of the story, and the scene was being used to showcase how much of a bad guy he was. Sadly, this did not spark an "Are we the baddies?" moment for him.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago
[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From what I read at the link below that doesn't seem to be the case. They took a baseline of the poverty threshold in 1978 and adjusted for inflation every year. However that line seems to have been set suspiciously low to begin with.

https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

I do the same. Some websites will not work claiming Firefox is not supported, but do some user agent spoofing and suddenly it works just fine. Just goes to show it is not actually the web engine that's the problem.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

The vibe I get is that they mean it as a compliment

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

I'm glad someone was brave enough to try the URL

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 weeks ago

Proprietary. Whoever paid for our server did not spring for the premium version where every planet has sentient alien life.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

As someone dailying a Linux phone, I will say that there were no issues getting it to work on T-Mobile. The only thing I did was manually enter the APN details, but that was an OS thing.

From what I have seen on forums Verizon won't let you at all, and AT&T might take a bit of work to get them to whitelist the IMEI on their network.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31534144

Alt text: Wrestler AJ Styles laughing with a label of "Trump sending in the military." Unbeknownst to him his opponent, The Undertaker, is standing behind him menacingly with the the label "Mass of protesters coming off the sidelines."

 

Alt text: Wrestler AJ Styles laughing with a label of "Trump sending in the military." Unbeknownst to him his opponent, The Undertaker, is standing behind him menacingly with the the label "Mass of protesters coming off the sidelines."

 

Alt text: An image of Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants facing left with the caption "MAGA: Gun rights are necessary for people to fight back against the government." Another image of Patrick facing right with the caption "Also MAGA: Send the military to crush the people fighting back against the government."

 

Alt text. A picture of Bane lifting Batman in the air. Top text reads “Me: Trying not to use words I painstakingly learned in college to make a document accessible.” Bottom text reads “Readability tool: Victory has defeated you.”

 

I came across this website that focuses on highlighting books that are out if print but still worthy of reading, if you can find them. The most recent post (Feb. 29 2024) talks about the various reasons books become neglected.

 

Mathematically they're equivalent, but the feelings could not be further apart.

 

This book was compelling to read not because of any sense of mystery, of which there is some, but because I wanted to learn more about what the characters were thinking as the author cycled through all their different perspectives.

 

This part of the article was the really infuriating part to me:

"In fact, his research shows that by square footage, there is more housing for each car in this country than there is housing for each person. In 2016, Bloomberg reported that there were more three-car garages being built than one-bedroom apartments."

 

It is a good read for those that enjoy young adult novels with a good balance of comedy, drama, and discussing some heavy subjects.

My full Review on a Bookwyrm instance linked in this post.

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